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Some of the best solar schemes now offer the cheapest electricity in history, with technology even more affordable than coal and gas in most countries. However, experts outline the extraordinarily tribal impact of the pandemic, and the future is highly uncertain for global energy use over the next 20 years. Considering this uncertainty, this year's version of the highly influential yearly outlook offers pathways until 2040, which are likely to see a massive rise in renewables. The central scenario has 43% more solar output by 2014, which is expected in 2018 partly due to the detailed new analysis showing that solar power is 20 to 50% cost-effective.

Irrespective of the rapid rise of renewables and structural decline of coal, experts say that it is too soon to declare a peak in global oil use until there is any intense climate action. At the same time, it says demands for gas can rise at least by 30% by 2014 unless the policy responds to global warming increases. It means that while global carbon dioxide emissions have picked up effectively, they are far from the instant peak and decline which is needed to stabilize the climate. Achieving net-zero emissions will require unprecedented efforts from different parts of the global economy besides the power sector.

For the first time, experts like IEA include detailed modeling of the 1.5 sees pathway, which reaches the global net-zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. It says that individualistic behavior changes like working from home three days a week would be crucial in getting net-zero emissions by 2050.

What does the future look like?

The annual world energy outlook generally arrives every autumn and features the most detailed and heavenly credited analysis of the global energy system. Over hundreds of densely packed pages, it draws on thousands of data points. The outlook includes different scenarios that reflect the uncertainty over decisions that will affect the global economic path's future and the route taken out of the pandemic crisis during the critical next ten years. WEO also aims to inform some policymakers by showing how their plans would need to change if they plan to shift on a more sustainable path. Therefore, this year it will omit the current policy scenario that provides some baseline by outlining a future in which no new policies would be added to those already in place.

It is because it is challenging to imagine this business as usual approach prevailing in current times.

The circumstances are unprecedented fallout from the pandemic that remains at an all-time high considering the depth and duration. The crisis is expected to pause a dramatic decline, especially in the global energy demand. Fossil fuels are here to make the most significant heat. It shows that the impact of government pledges to go beyond the current baseline policy. The steps designed here are to take a detailed and dispassionate look at the procedures which are either in place or announced in various parts of the world in the energy sector. It considers long-term energy and climate targets only to extend that some specific policies or measures back them up.

One of the significant shifts here is the solar shift change. The shift is the result of the new analysis which is carried out by the WEO team looking for a more average cost of capital for developers looking to build new generating capacity, which was previously assumed as a range of 7 to 8% for all the technologies wearing as per the countries stage of development.